Eggs of British Birds, with an Account of their Breeding-Habits. Limicolae.
London: R. H. Porter, 1895-6. 4to. 54 chromolithographic plates. Contemporary half brown morrocco with 5 raised bands. Title and gilt flowers to compartments. Gilt family crest of Francis Hubert Barclay to lower end of spine. Tope edge gilt, else uncut. Wrappers to all parts bound in at end.
Some surface rubbing of leather to outer hinges and corners. Else a tight and solid copy with clean interior.
An attractive copy with clean interior.
PROVENANCE:
– Catalogue clipping with sale date ”Edwards, 1911”.
– Francis Hubert Barclay [1869-1935]: His book plate to front paste down, family crest in gilt to lower spine end, and his signature to first blank.
Sotheby’s catalogue of printed books and a few illuminated manuscripts. Third day’s sale: Wednesday, June 5th, 1935. The Property of F. H. Barclay, Esq. The Warrem, Cromer.
– Bought at the 1935-sale by Quaritch, with collational notes by them.
Compiled acounts of the nesting habits of British shore birds, with excellent plates in colour depicting the eggs of the species in considerable individual variation. The work was issued in four parts. The various accounts are paged separately for each species and the plates are unnumbered, bu ton pp. III and IF of the introductory matter, the final pagination and numbering of plates are given. Zimmer, p.495.